Second Hearing: District of Columbia Appropriation Bill, 1920, Hearings ... 66th Congress, 1st Session1919 - 79 pages |
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Page 44 - School, fiscal year 1917, $20,000, and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to enter into contract or contracts for the construction of said building at a total cost not exceeding $130,500 (acts Sept.
Page 51 - The respondent or respondents may move at any time in the court to increase or change the amounts or securities, and the court shall make such order as shall be just in the premises and as shall adequately protect the respondents. In...
Page 51 - That certain and adequate provision shall have been made for the payment of just compensation to the party or parties entitled thereto, either by previous appropriation by the United States or by the deposit of moneys or other form of security in such amount and form as shall be approved by the court in which such proceedings shall be instituted.
Page 33 - Columbia, to hereafter to conduct any or all of the operations involved in the collection and disposal of city refuse of every kind as municipal functions, and for that purpose to purchase or lease the necessary plants, buildings, and land, to purchase or hire horses and horse-drawn vehicles, passengercarrying and other motor-propelled vehicles, equipment, and machinery, and to employ expert and other personal services, and labor, and to pay traveling, maintenance, incidental, and contingent expenses...
Page 51 - ... herein authorized : Provided further, That certain adequate provisions shall have been made for the payment of just compensation to the party or parties entitled thereto, either by previous appropriation by the United States or by the deposit of moneys or other form of security in such amount...
Page 45 - We are also going to the congressional commission to see if we can not get an allotment of public space, eliminating rent. The price of meals has gone up very much. We now get the meals from a caterer. We only pay for two meals a day, and we have to hold out from breakfast a sufficient amount of food to give the children food at lunch time. We do not believe that it would be possible to get the service that ought to be given at that place for these children, girls, and women for $6,000, and we should...
Page 51 - The Secretary of War may cause proceedings to be instituted for the acquirement by condemnation of any lands, easements, or rights of way which, in the opinion of the Secretary of War and the Chief of Engineers, are needed in carrying out this project, the said proceedings to be instituted in the United States District Court for the district in which the land, easement, or right of way is located.
Page 40 - I mean the number that will be accommodated ? Col. KUTZ. We will get that information from the principal. (The information referred to is as follows:) BOARD op EDUCATION OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, FRANKLIN SCHOOL BUILDING, Washington, DC, May 23, 1919. Lieut. Col. CW...
Page 3 - Dill as it passed the House and as it passed the Senate, with some amendments, in the SixtyFifth Congress was based, but there are some things to which we desire to call your attention on account of the changed conditions incident to the close of the war. Some of the estimates that we made were too small, especially for certain construction work where we, at the time we made the estimates, in September, 1918, when the war was actively in progress, did not believe that the conditions concerning...
Page 44 - For erection of an eight-room building on the site purchased for the purpose in the fifth division, between Eighteenth and Twentieth Streets and Monroe and Newton Streets NE., said building to be so constructed as to make it it easily possible to extend the same to a 16-room building at a later date, $90,000.